Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...suppose we ought to try for a Catholic -that seems to be the thing this year." As the laughter died, Carlin added: "For second place, that...
...election-year play about good buys and bad guys in presidential politics, went over bigger than usual one night last week at Manhattan's Morosco Thea ter. Like the moment in the first act when Trumanesque "ex-President Hock-stader" assured a prospective presidential nominee: "And for another thing, you're a millionaire. People trust you rich boys. They figure you've got so much money of your own you won't go stealin' theirs." Or when fat "Senator Carlin" cracked...
...extravaganza will be Sinatra and Lawford. The idea for the big show came from Philadelphia Contractor Matt McCloskey, the Democratic Party's national treasurer. "Frankie's an old friend of mine," explained McCloskey. "He told me, 'Matt, if you want me to do this thing, I'll get you all the talent you want.' " Frankie was as good as his word, thereupon unreeled a cast of characters that would stretch from Mocambo to Vegas. It includes Clansmen and Clans-women Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Curtis, Shirley Mac-Laine. The big show...
Because debates on education at Harvard often sound coldly formal and abstract a study of learning as the interaction of human beings is a welcome thing. Learning should be a dialogue between men, as well as the imparting of a discipline; frequently what is of lasting value in a course is not its content, but the chance it has offered to meet a great teacher. In the most recent Harvard Educational Review there is an article by Dean Whitla, instructor in Education and Director of the Office of Tests, concerned with education as the interaction of human beings. Part...
...students in the survey had great expectations when they came to Harvard and a few probably had a heavy emotional investment in the college. One could say that such students were unrealistic, that no college in the world spoon-feeds epiphanies to its students; Harvard teacher many things, but cannot show you how to define yourself. Yet it is a serious thing when so many people here feel "like a number on an examination paper" at a time in their lives when they seek an identity above...